Bloomcast | Episode 3 | Aeolus and Lestrygonians

Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's
Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson,
live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as
they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often
misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in
1922. 


 


In episode three in they skip through main plot points of Aeolus
and Lestrygonians, ask what these chapters might reveal about
Joyce’s views on technology, discuss the role of rhetoric in
shaping the novel, and turn to a Leonard Cohen for help in
understanding the formal innovation that appears in these pages.


Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you’d like to
hear us discuss: ulysses@shakespeareandcompany.com


 


The Ulysses guides they refer to include:


Kiberd, Ulysses and Us:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571242559/ulysses-and-us-the-art-of-everyday-living


Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781421443492/the-guide-to-james-joyces-ulysses


Killeen, Ulysses Unbound:
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780141999760/ulysses-unbound-a-readers-companion-to-james-joyces-ulysses


Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study


Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book


 


A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice
McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 


 


In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive
Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université
Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he
teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of
democracy.


 


Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company,
Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in
French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.





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